You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Even in despair, man must laugh.

My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.